It is inconceivable to see this holy being of Mary absolutely lost in Jesus, to see how profoundly She lives in Him, how what is proper to Her is destroyed and annihilated and how one sees and feels only a total abandonment and an absolute relinquishment; but more than all that, the donation of Her whole being is made with such a living, ardent and pressing need  that She is in a continuous act of  abandonment, feeling by Her ardent desires that it seems to Her that She does not belong enough to Him, wishing, were it possible for Her, to belong still more.  –Monsieur Olier a passionate mystic letter writer.

More than a friend to St Francis de Sales, Monsieur Olier must be associated with St Louis de Montfort. St Montfort (1673-1716) studied theology from 1695 to 1700 at Saint Sulpice, the seminary founded by Monsieur Olier. Olier died in 1657, but his spirit and his writings were very much alive and certainly greatly influenced St Montfort, the author of “The Secret of the Rosary”, “The Secret of Mary”, and “True devotion to Mary”.